Lee Busby

Lee Busby was an American retired military officer and sculptor who mounted a write-in campaign for the 2017 Alabama US Senate special election as a Republican Party candidate.

Biography
Lee Busby was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and he graduated from the University of Alabama before entering the US Marine Corps. Busby fought in the Iraq War and served as vice chief of staff to General John F. Kelly, among other posts. In 2013, he retired with the rank of colonel, and he trained soldiers in Afghanistan while working as a defense contractor. In retirement, he turned to sculpting as a new job. Busby ran for the US Senate in 2017, when Alabama held a special election to succeed Jeff Sessions, and Busby mounted a write-in campaign as a Republican Party candidate on 27 November 2017. Busby was a self-proclaimed centrist, although he mostly opposed abortion, supported Republican tax proposals, supported the repeal of Obamacare, and voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.